If you want a seat on the 2013 Freedom Train, now is the time to buy your ticket.

The Freedom Train, traveling from San Jose to San Francisco on Jan. 21 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day festivities, will have four stops.

It departs San Jose Diridon Station at 9:30 a.m., stopping at the Sunnyvale station at 9:45 a.m., the Palo Alto station at 9:59 a.m. and San Mateo station at 10:22 a.m. It will arrive in San Francisco at 10:55 a.m.

Freedom Train tickets are specially printed, and regular Caltrain tickets and day passes will not be accepted.

Freedom Train tickets are $10 per person; there are no discounts for children or seniors, and all passengers must have a ticket. The tickets are round-trip and can be used to take any train back from San Francisco on the 21st only.

Tickets are available online at brownpapertickets.com by entering Freedom Train in the search box. Board members of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Association, wearing purple T-shirts, will be at the stations to exchange the receipts for tickets at the stations on the 21st.

Tickets can also be ordered by sending a check made out to MLKSV Association and a stamped, self-addressed envelope by Jan. 10 to MLKSVA, P.O. Box 4738, San Jose, 95150.

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